Waiting in the mempool queue today really feels a bit like rush hour on the subway: hitting send doesn’t mean you’ll board immediately—it just means you’re getting in line first… Miners/validators will first pick the “tickets that are more expensive” (i.e., with higher gas), and I, as a miser, can only stare at my pending transactions in a daze, occasionally getting bumped out or expiring. In the end, it’s either I increase the fee and resend, or I accept defeat and withdraw. And on top of that, I force myself to quit making trades.

Recently, I heard that a certain region has added more taxes again, and compliance is getting a bit tighter too. When expectations for deposits and withdrawals change, a lot of people around me suddenly become more anxious, and the moment there’s on-chain congestion, the emotions get magnified right away. As for trusting data or intuition? I still trust data points more—after all, the gas trend is right there. Intuition is often just an illusion of wanting to save money… That’s all for now.